Paul Haas
The Jackson Symphony (Tennessee) has announced the appointment of Paul Haas as its fourth music director in the symphony’s 65-year history. He’s finishing up his tenure with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas. Haas is also Music director of the New York Youth Symphony.
Haas is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School, where he studied conducting as a Bruno Walter Fellow with Otto-Werner Mueller. His other conducting teachers include Michael Tilson Thomas and Leonard Slatkin. He also studied opera conducting in Dresden, Germany, at the Hochschule für Musik.
